“Obviously, the ‘no
conspiracy’ group is contributing greatly to the demise of liberty by their
unwillingness to even examine the evidence suggesting government conspiracies.
Truly, they are shutting their eyes ‘against a painful truth.’ And,
unfortunately, this group is most prevalent among pastors, Christians, and
churches.”

How To Spot A False Flag
Event

"For the most part,
the mainstream media is little more than a propaganda ministry for the federal
government."

A missionary friend of mine
in Eastern Europe recently gave me a heads up regarding an excellent article
written by Sebastian Swift entitled "5 Confirmed False Flag
Operations And How To Spot Them In The Future."

Swift writes, "The
false flag phenomenon is distinctively modern and used as an ideological weapon
to control populations with the fear of a manufactured enemy. They are used in
ostensibly democratic systems where people believe they have inalienable
rights. Such democratic systems--primarily the United States, Israel, and Great
Britain--must shock people into sociopolitical and geopolitical consent and, as
such, require sophisticated modern propaganda systems and advanced covert
operations teams with highly proficient skills."

Here are his telltale
signs of a false flag operation:

·There is an immediate comprehensive narrative, including a convenient
culprit. Law enforcement, government agencies, and the mainstream media
immediately proffer a narrative that completely explains the event and
encourages citizens to tie their intellectual understanding of the tragedy to
the emotions they experience. In his lecture at Contact in the Desert, [author
and researcher] Richard Dolan noted that a distinguishing characteristic of a
false flag operation is that the official narrative IS NOT questioned by the media.
There are often legislative, ideological and sociopolitical power plays waiting
in the wings, which the government can immediately implement.

·The official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages
for the governing body. The Bush administration used 9/11 to usher in the War
on Terror, which has served as a lynchpin for countless civil liberty
infringements by the national security state, including ubiquitous domestic
surveillance and indefinite detention.

·The narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions like fear,
as well as patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a previously
controversial issue. For example, many of the recent domestic terror attacks,
including the Aurora [and Orlando] shooting[s], have exacerbated and reinforced
advocacy of gun control legislation.

·Military training drills and police drills occur on the day of and very
near the attack itself, causing confusion to obscure eye witness testimony and
allowing orchestrators to plant both patsies, disinformation and backup
operatives. This is no small point. An incredible percentage of major domestic
or international terror attacks have involved simultaneous "training
drills.” This list includes, but is not limited to, the infamous NORAD drills
of 9/11, the 7/7 London Bombings, the 2011 Norway shooting, the Aurora
shooting, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon. Though none of the
aforementioned events can be confirmed or denied without a doubt, they bear a
striking resemblance to previous false flag attacks and should be looked at
with an investigative eye.

It's time for those of us
who have been reluctant to consider the possibility that our own government
(and the governments of Israel and Great Britain) could actually be complicit
in domestic terrorism in order to further a nefarious agenda to at least stop
accepting the government and media’s version of these tragedies at face value.
For the most part, the mainstream media is little more than a propaganda
ministry for the federal government. We haven’t seen true objective
investigative journalism since before the death of John F. Kennedy.

Granted, not every
national tragedy is part of a government conspiracy--and there is a plethora of
"conspiracy nuts" out there to whom EVERYTHING is a conspiracy and
through which we must wade to try to ascertain the truth. These people make it
difficult for all of us. The Internet has provided the Chicken Littles of the
world with an opportunity to play journalist. And their
“everything's-a-conspiracy” rants only serve to mask the true conspiracies and
turn the average John Doe away from the truth. That’s why I believe that many
of these “conspiracy-everywhere” Internet bloggers are actually PART OF THE
CONSPIRACY. Their job is to make genuine whistleblowers and researchers look
like conspiracy “kooks.” Then, of course, there are genuine kooks out there,
too.

Regardless, the
similarities and "coincidences" of many of these national tragedies
are just too numerous for rational people to ignore. I believe Mr. Swift's
analysis is very intelligent, coherent, and plausible.

Our Founding Fathers
believed their government (the British Crown) was deliberately conspiring
against them. Thomas Jefferson said as much in our Declaration of Independence:

“Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security.”

Read it again: “But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
evinces a DESIGN to reduce them under absolute Despotism . . . .” Jefferson and
the rest of America’s founders believed that there was a “design” (i.e, “plot,”
“scheme,” or “conspiracy,” if you please) to “reduce them under absolute
Despotism.” So, if you believe that government conspiracy is only for kooks,
you must include America’s Founding Fathers in that group.

Patrick Henry may have
said it best: "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and
listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this
the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are
we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having
ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?

"For my part,
whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole
truth--to know the worst and to provide for it."

I submit if we
deliberately "shut our eyes against a painful truth," liberty is not
long for this country. And there is plenty of blame to go around.

Obviously, the “no
conspiracy” group is contributing greatly to the demise of liberty by their
unwillingness to even examine the evidence suggesting government conspiracies.
Truly, they are shutting their eyes “against a painful truth.” And,
unfortunately, this group is most prevalent among pastors, Christians, and
churches.

I find it incredible that
people who supposedly study their Bibles are so completely blind to government
conspiracies. The Old and New Testaments are replete with examples of
government conspiracies. Jewish governments, especially, were notorious for
conspiring against God’s prophets in the Old Testament and against Jesus and
the Apostles in the New Testament. Plus, the New Testament plainly pictures the
master conspirator, Satan, as being the “god of this world” and “the prince of
the power of the air.” His offer to Christ on the Mount of Temptation to give
Jesus the “kingdoms of the world” was NOT challenged by the Lord. In other
words, Jesus didn’t dispute the fact that Satan controls many, if not most, of
the world’s governments. The Book of Ephesians warns against the conspiracy of
“principalities,” “powers,” “rulers of the darkness of this world,” and
“spiritual wickedness in high places.” Every Bible commentator that I respect
includes wicked civil magistrates within these personages. Yet when one brings
up the possibility of government conspiracies to the average church member, he
or she is treated as if they have the palsy.

Nowhere is this attitude
of the denial of conspiracies more evident than in the whole Muslim versus
America façade. Almost no Christian leader seems to be able to see the “man
behind the curtain” in this whole affair. They have absolutely NO concept of
what the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, Israel, Turkey, and Saudi
Arabia are surreptitiously doing to instigate and foment this “war with Islam.”
(Of course, there is no war against the Islamic states of Saudi Arabia and
Turkey; they are our “allies.”) Christians aren’t even willing to study the
matter. Therefore, the devil--along with the evil miscreants inside Western
governments that he controls--is able to go about his diabolical work completely
undetected.

But, in all fairness, the
“everything's-a-conspiracy” group must also share culpability in our country’s
demise. There are too many professing “patriots” who seem to have no honesty or
objectivity whatsoever. To them, everything government does is bad whether it
is or isn’t. And, of course, they, the so-called “patriots,” can do NOTHING
wrong.

For example, if a black
kid in an inner city is unjustly killed by a police officer, these “patriots”
say absolutely NOTHING. But if one of their “own” is justly killed by police,
they scream “tyranny” and shout about the need for revolution. Such people seem
to have no reasoning ability and no understanding of Natural Law. They are
agenda driven as surely as are big-government toadies. In fact, some of these
“patriot” Internet bloggers and radio broadcasters are no better than the
mainstream media: they twist the truth in order to pander to the people who are
supporting them financially. It’s not about principle; it’s not about truth;
it’s not about the rule of law. It’s all about their financial success.

When we only condemn
injustice committed by government, while overlooking and condoning injustice
committed by so-called “patriots,” we lose all credibility and integrity.
Everything is not a conspiracy. Every policeman or federal agent is not a
Jackboot. Sometimes there are real acts of violence committed by real deranged
criminals with no help whatsoever from anyone--including anyone in government.
And sometimes there are so-called “patriots” who are themselves evil, using the
freedom movement for their own ulterior purposes. And, of course, there are
well-intentioned people who sometimes do very foolish and unwise things. And
only foolish and unwise people would condone and support foolish and unwise
actions, even if they are well-intentioned.

I totally agree with
Sebastian Swift’s article that there are indeed false flag operations being
perpetrated by rogue elements within government--including the governments of
the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. I further agree that people need
to honestly and objectively be alert for the identifying characteristics of
these false flag operations. More than that, the American people need to begin
holding our civil magistrates accountable for these operations, as they could
not continue without the tacit support of our elected representatives and
President.

But what we do NOT need
are phony “patriots” who do nothing but distract, confuse, and incite by
calling everything a conspiracy and who themselves are guilty of unlawful
conduct--unlawful conduct as defined by God and Natural Law. (This is why the
ignorance and silence of America’s pulpits is such an egregious crime: people
do not even know how to discern lawful and unlawful conduct because pastors are
not teaching them these Biblical Natural Law principles.) Plus, I am personally
convinced that many of these hot-headed so-called “patriots” are in reality
government agent provocateurs who are deliberately trying to incite real
patriots into doing something stupid.

Again, I submit if we
deliberately "shut our eyes against a painful truth," liberty is not
long for this country. And that includes admitting when a tragedy is NOT a
conspiracy. But it also means admitting when evidence suggests that it IS.

5 Confirmed False Flag
Operations and How to Spot Them in the Future

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(ANTIMEDIA) The concept of the “false
flag” operation has become almost prohibitively stigmatized in recent years
because of the 9/11 “truther” movement and the emotional fallout from the
tragedies at Sandy Hook, Aurora, Boston and others. In spite of being labeled “conspiracy
theories,” real, verifiable false flag events have taken place in the past.
Such examples serve to dismantle the notion that false flags are meritless
conspiracy theories and can help destigmatize the concept itself, providing the
diagnostic lens needed to identify false flags when they arise.

Author Richard Dolan made
a presentation at the 2015 Contact in the Desert conference about
what he calls the “false flag era.” According to Dolan, because false flag
operations require control over the global media narrative and the ability to
intimidate other countries into not speaking out against “inside jobs,” only a
few countries have the means and motives to pull them off.

The false flag phenomenon
is distinctively modern and used as an ideological weapon to control
populations with the fear of a manufactured enemy. They are used in ostensibly
democratic systems where people believe they have inalienable rights. Such
democratic systems—primarily the United States, Israel, and Great Britain—must
shock people into sociopolitical and geopolitical consent and, as such, require
sophisticated modern propaganda systems and advanced covert operations teams
with highly proficient skills.

Operation Gladio

Operation Gladio was a post-World War
II program established
by the CIA, NATO, and possibly Britain’s M16 to fight communism in Europe by
whatever means necessary. The two-decade operation used CIA-created “stay
behind” networks as part of a “Strategy of
Tension”
that unleashed a multitude of terrorist attacks from the late 1960s to the
early 1980s. The attacks were blamed on Marxists and other left-wing political opponents in order to
discredit communism. The operation involved multiple bombings that killed hundreds
of innocent people, including children. The most notable attack was the August
2, 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station, which killed 85 people.

How do we know about
Operation Gladio in spite of its incredibly clandestine nature? There are two
principle sources. One, the investigations of Italian judge Felice Casson, whose presentation was
so compelling it forced Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to confirm
Gladio’s existence. The second source is testimony from an actual Gladio
operative, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, who is serving a life sentence for murder. In
a 1990 interview with the Guardian, Vincenzo stated that Gladio was
designed to psychologically coerce the Italian public to rely on the state for
security.

Operation Ajax

In 1953, the CIA launched
Operation Ajax in order to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leader,
Mohammed Mosaddiq, and replace him with the Shah, a ruthless dictator. The
United States sought to depose Iran’s nationalized Anglo-Persian oil company and
install 5 U.S. oil companies to take over the nation’s oil fields. In order to
do so, they staged a false flag operation that utilized
propaganda and complex political maneuvers in order to create public revolt
that eventually led to the United States and Britain’s MI6 military
intelligence re-installing the Shah in order to throttle Iran’s oil supplies and transform the
nation into a puppet regime of the United States government.

Most information relevant
to this CIA-sponsored coup is declassified now and available in the CIA archives.

“The world has paid a
heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation
Ajax taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants that the world’s most powerful
governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive
regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped
tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward
dictatorship.”

The Lavon Affair

In 1954, a year after
Operation Ajax, Israel launched its own false flag operation. Code-named
Operation Susannah, the Lavon Affair featured the covert operation of Israeli
agents who planted bombs in several Egyptian,
American, and British-owned cinemas, libraries and educational centers,
including a United States diplomatic facility, framing eight Egyptian Muslims
as the perpetrators.

One of the bombs detonated
prematurely, which caused one of the bombers to be captured. A public trial exposed
the Israeli spy ring and the covert operation. The operatives were convicted
and two of them executed. Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was forced to
step down because of the scandal. However, the more far-reaching consequences
of the Lavon Affair demonstrate once again how governments use false flags to
achieve certain objectives that might not have been possible otherwise. In this
case, according to a Stanford
published paper,
the operation triggered a chain reaction of game-changing events:

“A retaliatory military
incursion by Israel into Gaza that killed 39 Egyptians; a subsequent
Egyptian–Soviet arms deal that angered American and British leaders, who then
withdrew previously pledged support for the building of the Aswan Dam; the
announced nationalization of the Suez Canal by Nasser in retaliation for the
withdrawn support; and the subsequent failed invasion of Egypt by Israel,
France, and Britain in an attempt to topple Nasser. In the wake of that failed
invasion, France expanded and accelerated its ongoing nuclear cooperation with
Israel, which eventually enabled the Jewish state to build nuclear weapons.”

COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO was a series of
clandestine, illegal FBI projects that infiltrated domestic political
organizations to discredit and smear them. This included critics of the Vietnam
War, civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, and a wide variety of
activists and journalists.

The acts committed against them
included psychological warfare, slander using forged documents and false
reports in the media, harassment, wrongful imprisonment and, according to some,
intimidation and possibly violence and assassination.

A U.S. Congressional
committee documented the false flag
component of the campaign, describing how the FBI had hired provocateurs from
the 1950s through the 1970s to commit criminal and violent acts and falsely
blame them on political activists. The campaign worked extremely effectively at
disrupting the progressive momentum of the era.

Despite being formally
discontinued, new
permutations of
COINTELPRO have persisted and include present-day
efforts to undermine
activists,
whistleblowers and protests. In fact, a 2012 article published by The Guardiandescribed the FBI’s
crackdown on the Occupy movement as a “totally integrated
corporate-state repression of dissent.”

Gulf of Tonkin

The Gulf of
Tonkin incident,
a major escalator of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, never actually
occurred. The government essentially staged—or at the very least, utilized a
patently false report—in order to manufacture a geopolitical narrative with a
ready-made enemy, the North Vietnamese.

The original incident—also
sometimes referred to as the U.S.S. Maddox Incident(s)—involved the destroyer
U.S.S. Maddox supposedly engaging three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats as
part of an intelligence patrol. The Maddox fired almost 300 shells.

President Lyndon B.
Johnson promptly drafted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which became his
administration’s legal justification for military involvement in Vietnam. The problem
is the event never happened—and Johnson had no reason to believe it had.

In 2005, a declassified
internal National Security Agency study revealed that there were no North
Vietnamese naval vessels present during the incident. So what was the Maddox
firing at? In 1965, President Johnson commented, “For all I know, our Navy
was shooting at whales out there.”

“The parallels between the
faulty intelligence on Tonkin Gulf and the manipulated intelligence used to
justify the Iraq War make it all the more worthwhile to re-examine the events
of August 1964.”

The Warning Signs of a
False Flag Operation:

~There is an immediate
comprehensive narrative, including a convenient culprit. Law enforcement,
government agencies, and the mainstream media immediately proffer a narrative
that completely explains the event and encourages citizens to tie their
intellectual understanding of the tragedy to the emotions they experience. In
his lecture at Contact in the Desert, Richard Dolan noted that a distinguishing
characteristic of a false flag operation is that the official narrative IS NOT
questioned by the media. There are often legislative, ideological and
sociopolitical power plays waiting in the wings, which the government can
immediately implement. The most striking example of this is the Patriot Act,
which was written well
before 9/11 but
seemed to correlate entirely with the events that had transpired.

~The official narrative
has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the governing body. The Bush
administration used 9/11 to usher in the War on Terror, which has served as a
lynchpin for countless civil liberty infringements by the national
security state, including ubiquitous domestic surveillance and indefinite
detention. It also directly paved the way for an invasion of Afghanistan and
Iraq—countries that had nothing to do with the attacks—allowing our government
and defense contractors to control the natural gas pipelines and oil fields.
This bears a striking resemblance to Operation Ajax.

~The narrative behind
the attack serves to leverage emotions like fear, as well as patriotism, in
order to manufacture consent around a previously controversial issue. For
example, many of the recent domestic terror attacks, including the Aurora
shooting, have exacerbated and reinforced advocacy of gun control legislation.
More importantly, these attacks divide populations and invite the government
and militarized local police forces to have the authority to declare martial
law at will, locking down
entire neighborhoods.
We saw this after the Boston marathon bombing, the most striking example of
this nation’s post 9/11 police state mentality.

~Military training
drills and police drills occur on the day of and very near the attack itself,
causing confusion to obscure eye witness testimony and allowing orchestrators
to plant both patsies, disinformation and backup operatives. This is no
small point. An incredible percentage of major domestic or international terror
attacks have involved simultaneous “training drills.” This list includes, but
is not limited to, the infamous NORAD drills
of 9/11,
the 7/7 London
Bombings,
the 2011 Norway shooting, the Aurora
shooting, Sandy Hook, and the Boston
Marathon.
Though none of the aforementioned events can be confirmed or denied without a doubt,
they bear a striking resemblance to previous false flag attacks and should be
looked at with an investigative eye.

The bigger false flags
that occurred in the last two decades undoubtedly utilized unimaginable amounts
of money and resources. It will take time and many contributions by intrepid
researchers and whistleblowers to prove them.

The cases made for and
against 9/11 being a false flag “inside job” are voluminous and highly
controversial. The narrative is so convoluted with disinformation that despite
all of the technology and online resources at our disposal, it is highly
unlikely we will know for sure how many layers of shadow and black op agencies
were used—if, in fact, they were. What we do know is that shortly before the
events of 9/11, then-Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion dollars was missing from the
Pentagon’s budget. Unfortunately, too much evidence has been destroyed or
manipulated to reach a conclusive verdict as to whether it was a full blown
false flag or an extreme case of state opportunism.

Remember, the story of the
false flag phenomenon is one that is still being written. Our analysis of it
must breach the most powerful information control filters the world has ever
seen. As technology and social enlightenment make the crimes of the world’s
national governments transparent, we will see shocking new chapters added to
this history that will shatter mainstream perceptions of reality.